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    JetBlue Crisis

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    On Valentine’s Day 2007‚ JetBlue decided to follow its airline policy to ensure most flights are completed and opted out to canceling flights in hopes the weather would past fast. Instead‚ the weather got worse‚ while many were stranded on flights for hours. JetBlue should have just done a massive cancelation of flights for the day rather than a case by case basis when it was too late. To determine the causes of the failure of JetBlue’s CRM system during the crisis on Valentine’s Day 2007‚ we first

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    The Oka Crisis

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    ownership reached a tense climax in the summer of 1990‚ when a violent standoff erupted over ownership rights to a piece of land within the town of Oka. The 78-day standoff between the Quebec Police and the Mohawks of Kanesatake was one of the most revolutionary acts of defiance of Canadian Aboriginals in the 20th century. The crisis at Oka inspired and gained support of people worldwide. The event inspired protests as well as sudden increase in land claims from Aboriginals in New York‚ Vancouver

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    Currency Crisis

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    Definition of Currency Crisis: A situation in which the value of a currency becomes unstable‚ making it difficult for the currency to be used as a reliable medium of exchange. The effect of a currency crisis can be mitigated by sufficient foreign reserves. A currency crisis is a type of financial crisis. When is the Currency Crisis started? The Asian Financial Crisis was beginning in July 1997. The crisis started in Thailand with the financial collapse of the Thai baht caused by the decision

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    organization to be successful it must have a group of participants wanting to attain the identical purpose. The successful example I like to use is the real world experience that happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis that nearly led the Nation into a nuclear war with the USSR. The movie‚ “The Missiles of October” (Page‚ 1974)‚ was a great illustration that challenged the group decision making process. When groups come together for the purpose of discussing ideas and formulate plans that will affect

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    The Financial Crisis

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    rP os t UV2551 July 7‚ 2009 THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2007–2009: THE ROAD TO SYSTEMIC RISK op yo In early January 2009‚ George Corcoran‚ professor at a well-regarded business school in the southern United States‚ addressed a group of distinguished alumni in New York City. Many of them had experienced firsthand the ongoing global financial crisis; others were curious whether the crisis was finally ending or had only begun. Mindful of a series of record highs in the unemployment numbers

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    Financial Crisis

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    Financial Crisis A financial crisis is “an economic recession or depression caused by a lack of necessary liquidity in financial institutions. A financial crisis may be caused by a natural disaster‚ negative economic news or some other events.”(InvestorWords.com‚ 2009) Financial crisis usually decrease business activity because people do not have enough financial resources. The reason why I chose this topic is because it is a daily theme in all of the European tabloids. We read every day’s

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    The Coffee Crisis

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    | | 2/5/2012 2/5/2012 Tamara Young To begin‚ The Coffee Crisis is about an acute coffee crisis and how it threatens millions of small coffee farmers around the world and is putting economic growth‚ as well as social and political stability‚ at risk in scores of coffee producing countries in Central and South America‚ Africa and Asia. In 2004‚ the governments of coffee producing countries were considering how to respond to the dramatic decline in coffee prices caused in part by a large increase

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    Crisis in School

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    this devotion and is remarkably similar to the panics over education crises that have occurred throughout U.S. history. Unfortunately‚ almost all of the politicians and so-called education “expert” rushing forward to solve this latest education crisis seem to have forgotten the simplest facts about the early history of American education‚ which enabled this country to produce far more than its share of the world’s most creative thinkers. A hundred years ago‚ eight and a half per cent of American

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    The Financial Crisis

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    1. Write below in 10-15 sentences in your own words‚ what were the causes of the recent Global Financial Crises of 2008-2009? Explain how it all started and what happened. The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has been largely and mainly attributed to the paralysis and failure of credit industry including mortgages. People were described to be using money that they don’t have‚ and the failure to repay such debts led to the collapse of the market. Fund sources became dried up because the rate of spending

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    Bosnian Crisis

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    Bosnian crisis Austria-Hungary after 1878 Treaty of Berlin was allowed to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina. Certain events happened to make Austria-Hungary feel threatened that she would no longer be able to ‘rule’ Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 1908 Bosnian crisis happened due the fact that Austria-Hungary wanted to and did annex Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the annexation‚ many problems were made‚ some were solved others weren’t. Austria-Hungary feeling threatened caused the Bosnian crisis‚ and her

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